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Fish Omelet

A quick omelet made with finely minced fish and eggs, cooked in butter or oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,488 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Fish Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Remove bones and skin from the fish.

  2. Finely mince or shred the fish using two forks.

Cook the omelette

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and mix in the fish.

  2. Heat butter or oil in a skillet over medium heat.

  3. Pour the egg and fish mixture into the skillet and cook until set.

  4. Serve the omelet with fish sauce poured around it, if desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Fish + fish saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + fishtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,782 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + fish saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a structure that holds the fish together as the omelette cooks.
Cooked fish
Supplies the savory flavour and protein that give the omelette its main body.

The step that matters

Pour the egg and fish mixture into the skillet and cook until set. Eggs set through gentle, steady heat. Too much heat toughens and browns them quickly, making the omelette rubbery and dry, so medium heat helps keep it tender.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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